Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government passed a decree on September 25 banning full-face coverings in all Italian schools and capping the proportion of newly arrived foreign pupils with insufficient Italian language skills at 30% per class, effective from that date. Critics accused Meloni of shifting right ahead of next year's elections.
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The Italian government plans to impose a ban on full-face coverings in schools, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni seeks to galvanize hard-right voters ahead of a general election next year.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government has passed new school rules capping the number of students who don't speak fluent Italian and banning face coverings.
A new law banning pupils from covering their faces in Italian schools and limiting the number of non-Italian nationals in some classes has been presented. Parents will also have to learn basic Italian.
Italy has passed a decree banning face coverings in all schools and capping the proportion of newly arrived foreign pupils with insufficient Italian at 30 per cent per class from the next school year, the government in Rome said on Friday. The government said the 30 per cent quota applies in primary school to children who do not hold Italian citizenship, were not born in Italy and have not attende
Critics say decree also banning burqa in schools shows Italian PM running scared ahead of next year’s vote Rights campaigners have accused the Italian government of ramping up divisive rhetoric in an attempt to court far-right voters ahead of next year’s general election after it passed a decree aimed at capping the number of newly arrived migrants in classrooms and banning the burqa and niqab in
The VVD wants a ban on face-covering clothing at demonstrations written into law as soon as possible, Trouw reports. Coalition party D66, civil servants, and mayors are opposed.Since, in principle, th...